Artem's Profile

Member since June 10, 2004

  • Name

    Artem Tashkinov

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    Russian Federation

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  1. Review - UltraVNC

    1.0.8.0 (Nov 9, 2009)

    Defaults settings could have been made better, video driver for improved speed needs a lot of work, lots of keys don't work remotely (not, I'm not talking about Ctrl+Alt+Del), otherwise a very good software.

  2. Review - Java SE Runtime Environment (JRE)

    6 Update 17 (Nov 5, 2009)

    Silently installs JAVA update application which I hate to see on all of our corporate PCs.

    That's plain wrong.

  3. Review - Sysinternals Suite

    Build 11/3/09 (Nov 5, 2009)

    Sometimes I hate Microsoft.

    For no reasons, Filemon and Regmon were thrown out of the Suite and you cannot even download them from the sysinternals website.

    Both were lean and fast, and much handier than Procmon monster.

  4. Review - KDE

    4.3.3 (Nov 5, 2009)

    DudeBoyz should banned from commenting on any open source software.

    KDE _requires_ hardware acceleration for many GUI operations that's why it will never run fast in a VM (unless VM authors implement the required GPU features).
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    Reviewing 4.2 RC1 (Jan 17, 2009)
    Getting better and better, unfortunately feature-wise it's still not on par with KDE 3.5.10. If you need the same configurability as KDE 3.5.10, you will probably have to wait till KDE 4.3.

    As for KDE 4.2 RC1: it has become faster and more responsive, features are being steadily added, all in all it's getter much better. KDE developers themselves call this release the first real 4.0 release.

  5. Review - VistaSwitcher (32-bit)

    1.0.6 (Nov 5, 2009)

    IMO this application/utility NEEDS to be renamed since Vista in its name automatically implies that it is FOR Vista only.

    I'd call it: AltTab Beautifier for Windows XP/2000.

  6. Comment - Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

    1.0.6 (Nov 4, 2009 - 2:21 PM)

    To Betanews:

    please, add Arora browser to the mix. It's not yet popular but it has very nice features and it's blazingly fast.

  7. Comment - Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

    1.0.6 (Nov 4, 2009 - 2:19 PM)

    You're BS'ing us. 90% of PCs in my organization have exactly 1GB of RAM and I'm scared to imagine a browser which is not trying to preserve memory.

  8. Comment - Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

    1.0.6 (Nov 4, 2009 - 2:18 PM)

    Chrome is not nearly as popular as even Opera so malware authors/security experts don't have an incentive to find holes in it. And probably its sandbox architecture is paying off - who knows?

  9. Comment - Google Chrome in a runaway lead for browser performance supremacy

    1.0.6 (Nov 4, 2009 - 2:15 PM)

    WinXP beats Win7 most of the time and that's on a modern hardware.

    Now will those people, who say that Win7 is faster on a new hardware, please, shut up.

    Thanks, betanews for showing us these straightforward results.

  10. Comment - Windows 7: Vista without the crap

    1.0.6 (Oct 24, 2009 - 3:46 PM)

    Sadly, Betanews has become just another assemblage of Windows bigots. There can be no dialog or discussion here.

    Whenever you say anything bad about Windows you'll be modded down to the Hell even if you say the truth and even if your opponents are completely wrong.